Epidemiological Investigation of an Outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Malda District of West Bengal, India

Abhijit Mishra⁶, Nandita Basu¹, Dipankar Maji⁸, Dilip Kumar Mondal⁵, Nepal Mahapatra⁶, Tarun Pathak⁶, Surya Haldar¹, Arvind Kumar⁷, Anand K Mishra⁷, Bhaswati Bandyopadhyay^1*, Anjan Das⁶, Amitabha Mandal⁵, Soleman Alam⁵, Nemai Bhattacharya¹, Mehebubar Rahman¹, Raghunath Mishra⁴, Sibarjun Ghosh³ and Debjit Chakraborty²

¹Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India

²Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, State Surveillance Unit, India

³R G Kar Medical College, India

⁴Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research Institute, India

⁵District Health Officials, Malda District, India

⁶Malda Medical College, India

⁷Sree Krishna Medical College, Muzaffarpur, India

⁸Directorate of Health Services, Govt. of West Bengal, India